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Comment Re:But, but, teh STEM talents!!! (Score 3, Informative) 284

by TacoBellGrande (#48261479) Attached to: Skilled Foreign Workers Treated as Indentured Servants

What are you smoking?

The companies listed Apple, Cisco, Verizon pay wages most of America could only dream of -- especially since they typically require only a 4 year degree. According to GlassDoor:

Apple's entry-level Software Engineer title makes an average base pay of $119,268, plus $34kish in additional incentives.
Cisco's "Software Engineer" title has an average salary of $117,326 with about $20k in additional incentives.
Verizon's "Software Engineer" title has any average salary of $100,098. Only one person reported bonus, at $14k. I'm not sure if, like the above companies, bonuses & stock are all but a given.

Since H1Bs are, by law, required to be paid the same salaries as their American citizen counterparts, if anything, the travesty is that we're giving the nation's best-paying jobs to people from overseas. But having hired numerous engineers, I can say that it'd be difficult to staff a large tech company of any size without relying on a foreign labor pool.

There's certainly abuses of the H1B program, but they're mostly from the big Indian "work for hire" shops like L&T, Infosys, etc. They pay way below industry norms, and thus, paying domestic workers the same wage as your foreign workers isn't that big of a deal.
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Antidepressants In the Water Are Making Shrimp Suicidal 182

Posted by samzenpus from the crustacean-frustration dept.
Antidepressants may help a lot of people get up in the morning but new research shows they are making shrimp swim into that big bowl of cocktail sauce in the sky. Alex Ford, a marine biologist at the University of Portsmouth, found that shrimp exposed to the antidepressant fluoxetine are 5 times more likely to swim towards light instead of away from it. Shrimp usually swim away from light as it is associated with birds or fishermen.
Censorship

Venezuela's Last Opposition TV Owner Arrested 433

Posted by timothy from the or-in-this-case-on-air dept.
WrongSizeGlass writes "AP is reporting the owner of Venezuela's only remaining TV channel that takes a critical line against President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday. 'Guillermo Zuloaga, owner of Globovision, was arrested on a warrant for remarks that were deemed "offensive" to the president,' Attorney General Luisa Ortega said. This comes on the heels of last week's story titled Venezuela's Chavez To Limit Internet Freedom."
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Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting 390

Posted by kdawson from the one-man's-readable dept.
An anonymous reader writes "For years, Microsoft has allowed Visual Studio users to define arbitrary tab widths, often to the dismay of those viewing the resultant code in other editors. With VS 2010, it appears that they have taken the next step of forcing tab width to be the same as the indent size in code. Two-space tabs anyone?"
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EVE Online Battle Breaks Records (And Servers) 308

Posted by Soulskill from the blame-it-on-the-torrents dept.
captainktainer writes "In one of the largest tests of EVE Online's new player sovereignty system in the Dominion expansion pack, a fleet of ships attempting to retake a lost star system was effectively annihilated amidst controversy. Defenders IT Alliance, a coalition succeeding the infamous Band of Brothers alliance (whose disbanding was covered in a previous story), effectively annihilated the enemy fleet, destroying thousands of dollars' worth of in-game assets. A representative of the alliance claimed to have destroyed a minimum of four, possibly five or more of the game's most expensive and powerful ship class, known as Titans. Both official and unofficial forums are filled with debate about whether the one-sided battle was due to difference in player skill or the well-known network failures after the release of the expansion. One of the attackers, a member of the GoonSwarm alliance, claims that because of bad coding, 'Only 5% of [the attackers] loaded,' meaning that lag prevented the attackers from using their ships, even as the defenders were able to destroy those ships unopposed. Even members of the victorious IT Alliance expressed disappointment at the outcome of the battle. CCP, EVE Online's publisher, has recently acknowledged poor network performance, especially in the advertised 'large fleet battles' that Dominion was supposed to encourage, and has asked players to help them stress test their code on Tuesday. Despite the admitted network failure, leaders of the attacking force do not expect CCP to replace lost ships, claiming that it was their own fault for not accounting for server failures. The incident raises questions about CCP's ability to cope with the increased network use associated with their rapid growth in subscriptions."

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